If you’re like most people, you have a couple of email addresses and maybe a Live account too. If you want to get rid of them all, there are a few ways to go about it. In this article, we’ll show you how to delete your Hotmail and Windows Live accounts permanently.
What to do if you accidentally create a Hotmail account
If you create a Hotmail account without intending to and need to permanently delete it, the process is relatively simple.
To delete your Hotmail account, open the web browser on your computer and go to www.hotmail.com. In the upper-left corner of the page, click on the blue gear icon and select “Account Settings.” On the next page, under “Email Accounts,” click on the blue button labeled “Delete Account.” You will be asked to confirm your decision to delete your account. Click on the “Delete My Account” button and confirm again that you want to delete your account. Your Hotmail account will be permanently deleted in about a minute.
How to delete your Windows Live account ?
Step 1
Sign into your Hotmail or Windows Live account. Now open up your Hotmail inbox. From your inbox Click Options > More options* from the box that appears in the top-right corner, just below your username.
Once the options page loads, Click Account details (password, aliases, time zone) under the Managing Your Account subheading.
*Interestingly enough, I couldn’t find a button to access account options anywhere else on live.com.
Step 2
Scroll down to the bottom of the account details page and Click the Close your account link.
Step 3
Now you’ll likely see a page like the one in the screenshot below, which tells you that you cannot close your account because of reason xyz. It’s hogwash, all of it. But on every Live Hotmail account I attempted to close, I ran into this or a very similar window. You’re blocked from deleting unless you know the secret deletion URL that bypasses this whole process.
Step 4
If the above steps didn’t work for you, which is likely, you’ll need to use the super-hidden deletion link: Click here to go directly to the account closure confirmation page.
Hotmail will notify you of what we already know; it will take 270 days to permanently close the account. Geez, and I thought Facebook’s 2-week policy was bad! Well, at least Hotmail isn’t publicly displaying your emails.
Click Close account and don’t sweat it. If you want your account back, all you have to do is log in, and the whole deletion process is canceled.
Assuming that the close account button worked this time, you’ll see a confirmation page letting you know your account data will be deleted. About that: Before writing this I let an account sit closed for two weeks. Now, I just reactivated it, and all of my email messages and contacts are sitting right where I left them. Perhaps by a “few days,” Hotmail means a “few months.” Maybe it doesn’t even delete your messages until the 270 days are up? I don’t know, and I sure don’t want to cancel it halfway through to find out, but it is a possibility.
Tips for deleting your Hotmail and Windows Live account
If you want to permanently delete your Hotmail and Windows Live account, there are a few different steps you need to take.
First, you’ll need to login to your account and click on the “Your Account” link in the top right corner of the screen.
On the Your Account page, click on the “Deactivate Your Account” link in the top left corner of the page.
You’ll then be asked to confirm that you want to deactivate your account.
Once you’ve confirmed that you want to deactivate your account, click on the “Deactivate My Account” button.
You’ll then be taken to a confirmation page where you’ll need to verify your email address.
After verifying your email address, click on the “Confirm Deactivation” button.
You’ll then be taken to a final confirmation page where you’ll need to enter your password in order to complete deactivation of your account.
Once deactivation is complete, all of your data will be deleted from both Hotmail and Windows Live accounts.
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